Skip to main content
Activists stage blockade over language crisis
Government offices targeted over decline

Language activists staged a six-hour blockade of Welsh government offices yesterday to demand First Minister Carwyn Jones act over the "crisis" in numbers of Welsh speakers.

Six members of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (the Welsh Language Society) swooped on the government's Llandudno offices at 6am, chaining themselves to the main gates.

Cymdeithas chairman Robin Farrar, who led the protest, said: "There's a real crisis facing the language, but the Welsh government is not acting seriously.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
HIGH SPIRITS: During a school activity in a park in Havana on March 4 2026 while a man holds up a photo of Fidel Castro with an ‘in my heart’ message
Latin America / 14 March 2026
14 March 2026

As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS

NATIONALISATION CALL UNHEEDED: Assorted notables at the location of the new Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) on Monday July 14 2025 - Tata Steel gets £500 million while the local population a loss of 2,800 job
Wales / 28 February 2026
28 February 2026

LUKE FLETCHER outlines Plaid Cymru bold plans for wide-ranging policy consultations with trade unions in Wales

LEGEND: (L to R) Gareth Miles in December 2021; Cymdeithas yr Iaith's first protest on Trefechan Bridge, Aberystwyth on January 7 1963 / Pics: (L to R) Eiry Miles/CC; Geoff Charles/CC
Features / 24 January 2026
24 January 2026

MEIC BIRTWISTLE offers an appreciation of the renaissance man GARETH MILES

Eisteddfod 2025
Wales / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025